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You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.

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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.
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It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear
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If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.
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I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.
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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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Familiarity seems to breed contempt
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I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
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[Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The what if factor. I tried to write it cinematically and let the dialogue carry it but I forgot about the interior monologue. It's kind of hard to show what's going on in the head. I think we should do it like a documentary.
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Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.
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Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
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We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world — a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
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